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News Corp’s Australian chair claims ‘activist’ athletes hurt grassroots sport | Australia sport
Rupert Murdoch’s Australian chief executive has accused athletes of hurting sport when they become “activists” and reject sponsorships from mining or energy companies. The executive chair Australasia of News Corp Australia, Michael Miller, told a sporting leadership conference that athletes who reject sponsors don’t lose any pay but the “grassroots” sporting organisations suffer as a result of their activism. News Corp is the largest publisher in Australian with mastheads including the Australian, the Daily Telegraph, the Herald Sun and news.com.au, and the pay TV channel Sky News Australia. Miller appeared to reference the withdrawal of Hancock Prospecting’s $15m sponsorship from Netball Australia last year after a player backlash. The backlash…
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Black education activist slams DeSantis over canceling AP course
A Black education activist slammed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ move to ban AP African American studies from the state’s high universities and warned that the move could erase vital historical classes from the classroom. “It truly is likely to damage Black communities and it is really likely to hurt people pupils who would choose this course as an alternative to check out the very good, negative and unpleasant of our historical past, which helps make them improved students and far better grownups for culture,” American Federation of Instructors Secretary-Treasurer Fedrick Ingram said in an interview with GMA 3 Thursday. Past week, the Florida Section of Education rejected the AP study…
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